Monthly Archives: February 2005
Sun Stakes Future on Grid Computing
SANTA CLARA, Calif.—Sun Microsystems Inc. senior executives hope to put Sun in a dominant position as a low-cost grid computing system provider before IBM...
Enterprises Seek Direction on Utility Computing Front
BURLINGAME, Calif.—Utility computing holds promise because of its basis in lower-cost hardware and software, but enterprises require better ways to manage and provision their...
Xigns Order-to-Pay Service Aims to Save Time, Money
Xigns on-demand Order-to-Pay service, called the XPSN (Xign Payment Services Network), offers an electronic order delivery, invoice processing and payment service for business-to-business commerce....
Rewriting GPL No Easy Task
BURLINGAME, Calif.—In 1991, Richard Stallman, founder of the Free Software Foundation, rewrote the GNU General Public License and simply put the final version out...
Power Politics Overshadow $100 PC Concept
DAVOS, Switzerland—Nicholas Negroponte, wandering around this city, was trying to get people excited about the idea of a very small, very cheap PC, costing...
Linksys Goes Long with MIMO-based Wireless
Two large industry "Pre-N" groups, the TGn Sync Group and the World-Wide Spectrum Efficiency (WWSE), each espouse a different approach to achieving 100Mbits/sec of...
Could Cellular Be Added To MP3 Players?
Freescale Semiconductor said Wednesday that it is sampling its Mobile Extreme Convergence embedded cellular architecture to customers, potentially adding wireless capabilities to a variety...
Clustering Eases Talk Americas Replication Woes
Talk America Holdings Inc., a phone and high-speed Internet access provider and an early adopter of Oracle Corp.s 10g technology, has untangled itself from...
IBM Widens Net in SCO Subpoena Search
IBM has started a round of depositions aimed at gleaning as much information as possible about the contents of communications between The SCO Group...
MSN to Support Electronic ID Card Technology
Microsoft Corp.s Belgian subsidiary has launched an electronic ID card pilot program and is looking to integrate authentication for e-ID cards into future versions...